Carter's Crime Plan

“I would like to have some members from the community — leaders such as organization leaders, church leaders, also members from the police department (and) from the parole department — talk about safety issues,” she said.The remainder of Carter’s plan emphasizes improving the police department by hiring more diverse officers, adding police substations and purchasing new technology, such as surveillance cameras.

The idea of surveillance cameras in high crime areas strikes me as a good idea, which is why I proposed it in a column months ago. Mayor Wendell Butler jumped on the notion and has applied for the grants to get and pay for them.

As for a more diverse police force, isn't Chester's force pretty diverse as it is?

Hiring more Asian women as cops, no doubt, would bring more diversity to the table.

But is there any reasonable expectation this would improve the force's crime fighting abilities? I think not.

More diversity? Gov. Rendell recently nominated a lawyer for Judge in Philadelphia because he is openly gay - all in the name of diversity. Lets get some openly homosexual men and women on the police force and really propmote diversity. Once hired and trained they can institute a "hug a thug" program. I hear they decorate nicely too!

She sounds like a real winner. It sounds like her plan boils down to "we gonna do more to try harder and see how it turns out". What was that? You said a bunch of words but they mean absolutely nothing. A "plan" would be something that isn't being done right now right?